Tagged With: brown trout
Breathing New Life into a Local Favorite
These guys put together a nice video about a special place for fly anglers close to Chicago. This river is undergoing a dam removal real soon that should overall improve the water quality, but it will definitely have a different personality as a free flowing river. Opening well over a hundred miles of river including … Continue reading
January Trout Fishing – Driftless Area
With the warmer than normal weather we experienced last weekend some friends and I got out for a day of trout fishing in the driftless area. Due to some rain and snow melt we encountered some situations that we all learned from which in turn will make us more successful in the future. The first … Continue reading
Winter Trout – Driftless Area
With all the holiday activity finally settling down I found some time to head west and fish some spring creeks in the Driftless Area. Most of the spring creeks in Southwest Wisconsin stay free of ice through the winter months, and now that the early season begins the first Saturday in January we have 2 … Continue reading
Driftless Caddis 4/17/2016
Sometimes you head to your favorite trout stream looking for a particular hatch and all the conditions seem right, and for some random reason of cruel fate, it never materializes. This was not that day. Everywhere you found rocks and riffles, you found Caddis popping and trout rising. The heads of pools was where the action … Continue reading
Michigan Steelhead 4/9/16
Last weekend a bunch of guys and I headed up north along Michigan’s west coast with a few small boats, way too many fly rods, a smoker, and a cooler full of meat. Exactly the way I expected to celebrate the end of my non-married life. Along the way we checked the weather forecast and … Continue reading
Spring has Sprung
With this nice spring weather we’ve had here fishing opportunities are opening up everywhere for a variety of species in the midwest. Wisconsin’s early trout season has been open since January, steelhead tributaries in southern Wisconsin have been free of ice and should be providing some of the best lake-run trout fishing of the year, … Continue reading